Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old forward collapsed during a % postseason game at Boston Garden. Lewis, who is the Celtics' leading scorer, bravely returned to the game before weakening and finally heading for the bench for good. A few days later, a team physician delivered a disturbing diagnosis: Lewis had "focal cardiomyopathy," an ailment that damages an area of the heart and causes it to beat irregularly. Hank Gathers of Loyola Marymount University, another celebrated young basketball player, died from cardiomyopathy in 1990. Lewis said he would seek a second opinion. And Celtics fans, stunned by the loss, looked around desperately for another hoops...
...senior, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she had been treated by three different male doctors for a mysterious stomach ailment she caught overseas. One of the doctors, she says, questioned her toughness...
Clinicians have also achieved some success against a lung ailment called Mycobacterium avium complex, which mimics tuberculosis. "MAC is difficult to treat," says Dr. Mathilde Krim, chairman of AmFAR. "It is considered a bad omen and is usually terminal." This past December the Food and Drug Administration approved rifabutin for protection against MAC. According to clinical trials sponsored by AmFAR, the drug cuts the chance of developing...
...WANT TO MEET SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LES ASPIN, take a number. According to a recent procedural memo (circulated before Aspin fell ill from a heart ailment), Pentagon officials have to cut through a lot of red tape to get a face-to-face with Aspin. The process: 1) fill out an "initial schedule bid." If Aspin approves, 2) complete an "amended schedule proposal format." And finally 3a) meet with Aspin -- unless he doesn't like your final proposal, in which case 3b) you return to Step...
...most. "It must be strongly emphasized," writes a group of Harvard immunologists, "that this study does not demonstrate efficacy." Even so, the news brought a bit of hope to sufferers of a disease that brings mostly despair. The scientists are working on a treatment for multiple sclerosis, the nerve ailment that robs victims of muscle control and, too often, life itself...